Karakoram Highway Tour

Every time you travel along the Karakoram highway tour gives a new traveling experience. It is like forming a taste for something beautiful hence whenever you travel through this route it gives you a reward for understanding live miracles of life. Travelling through this route offers the opportunity to see the fascinating beauty and landscape that changes after every kilometer. It was considered as impossible to build this road by the renowned experts in road building technology because of the route through huge mountains and rivers. The implementation of this plan was called fallacious since it was the toughest task to undergo. Today it is in its final shape considered as the modern wonder of the world, it is also a brave human achievement as this task was never easy, many human beings sacrificed their life while working for this road for the comfort of their fellow human being. It is a great example of self-sacrifice through teamwork, willpower, and persistence.

This is 1300km long road ending in the khunjerab pass connecting with china border offering to see the scenic beauty and the most attractive mountains like Nanga Parbat, Haramosh, Rakaposhi, Diran, Ultar peak, Golden peak, Tupopdan, Passu cathedrals, Passu cones, Gulmit tower, Ghisper peak. All these mountains and peaks falls across the Karakorum highway tour making it the modern wonder of the world. There are various tribes living across this highway they have their own unique culture, values, and language. The languages spoken are shinaki, brushki, wakhi, pushto, khwar, balti and hindko. The wildlife existing in the mountains on the Karakorum highway tour makes it most interesting like the Morcopolo, the Markhor, leopard, sheep, ibex, yak, urial, double-humped camel and kohistani partridge. While traveling into this region a person becomes as isolated from the rest of the world in complete peace and lost into the natural beauty of this land which cannot be found in any part of the world, the attractive old villages, the waterfall and the pretty features of the drive make the traveling experience unforgettable.

The well-known thakot bridge was Pakistan-china jointly project. Three mountains connects with each other over the Karakoram highway tour the Himalayas, Karakorams and Hindu Kush mountain range. Crossing Besham, and the kohistan region and entering into chilas region to experience the change in every kilometer from lush green beauty to huge mountains and rivers along. Monuments are being built along the road to honor the sacrifice of the 900 people who lost their lives while working in building the road, the travelers pay tribute to them in those monuments while traveling.

Building the road through the mountains was never easy it required an incredible act of engineering both Pakistani and Chinese engineers came together to complete this project and it took twenty years to bring it in its final shape. 1500 Pakistani workers and 10000 Chinese workers were involved in the building of the road adding in the complexity it was not measured in miles but in yards. The Chinese Engineers were focusing on building bridges and the Pakistani on building roads. Due to the complexity of the work, the workers learned to climb the rocks and belaying. This Karakoram highway tour is also known as the friendship highway between China and Pakistan as it connects these countries.

Karakoram highway was then opened to travelers in 1978 and many mountain lovers traveled through this highway. This traveling gives a unique experience of traveling through the high mountains of above 8000m seeing the lust beauty and the wonderful rivers and peaks through besham and chilas connecting to the border of Pakistan-china in the khunjerab pass 4733m above sea level. In some sections of the Karakoram highway the old silk route road can be seen merging with the modern road through which many merchants and travelers traveled to china. This area of Pakistan is considered as an inspiring area for mountain lovers, photographers, nature lovers and writers by geologists & the Karakoram highway national park is simply paradise. The Khunjerab pass is mostly covered with snow hence it has a time period for opening in a year it remains open from 1 st April to 30th November in a year.

Let’s make your traveling experience through Karakorum highway memorable and wonderful as well as safe in the highest mountains in the World with PMC. We look forward to welcome you to Pakistan, whether you are planning to do hiking, trekking, sightseeing tours or safaris.